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> You can't just say "add more doctors" as if that helps anything. Why wouldn't it? There are more than enough people who would want to become a doctor, and w
by vanviegen 5y ago
> You can't just say "add more doctors" as if that helps anything.
Why wouldn't it?
There are more than enough people who would want to become a doctor, and would be capable. Especially if the work/life balance would be better. At least in my part of the world, it seems that the system is rigged to keep the number of docters artificially low.
- dahfizz 5y ago> Why wouldn't it? I explained in my comment: There is a shortage of doctors. Unless you know 50,000 people with medical degrees searching for a job, you are going to have to fix the situation that created the shortage rather than just wishing more doctors would appear. This is what dasudasu was doing. They identified a cause of the shortage (doctors are encouraged to work 60% of a work week) and your response was "so what, more doctors will just appear". More doctors have not been appearing.
- vanviegen 5y agoNo, what I said is that there appears to be a structural problem causing a lack of docters, which we need to fix, as it causes high work pressure (and rather high earnings). I don't think doctors working 60+ hour weeks is the type of solution to the shortage we should aim work.